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Originally Posted by writerkit
Sorry - I may have been mistaken in my assumption KF8 only reads AZW3 files, and that earlier Kindles are the only ones that read MOBI. Calibre does not specify the device in its mobi output interface. It only gives us the option of "old" mobi, "new" mobi, or "both." It discourages the use of "both" or "new" so I've been using "old." I suppose I could make the guess then that I'm making a MOBI file for use on Kindles prior to KF8, but that would only be a guess.
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writerkit:
Not to be snarky, but you're not helping me much here. First you post complaining that mobi
should "...at least accept the directive to use sans-serif rather than serif, if my CSS directs it to?," and then I ask you if you mean MOBI or PRC, then I ask you what type of MOBI you're making, and all I keep getting from you are answers related to Calibre, which quite bluntly has nothing whatsoever to do with
making ebooks; it's a library tool, not a conversion and book-making tool. If you don't understand what type of ebook you're making, then how can you
possibly expect to understand what type of CSS will or won't work for it?
If your "guess" that you're making a MOBI file for use on Kindles prior to KF8 is accurate, then in short,
no, you can't direct it to use a san-serif font.
I don't know what you're feeding to Calibre to "make" a mobi file, but you might consider using Kindlegen or KindlePreviewer, which are the
actual tools provided by Amazon with which to genuinely make Kindle books, to work on Kindle devices. The reason that you're being "warned off" using Calibre is because Amazon routinely rejects Calibre-made books. AZW3 has nothing to do with the discussion, actually. If you're capable of making an XHTML file, you should be able to make an ePUB, and with a very small amount of additional learning, you can then feed that ePUB to KindleGen and get a perfectly-crafted MOBI file. Calibre is NOT a book-making tool; it's a library tool. Nothing against it as a library tool, but if you can write that, you should have no problems making a MOBI file correctly, that will, for the most part, do what you want it to (within Mobi's inherent limitations).
Hitch